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Telecoms seen beating cable on broadband in Q2

U.S. local telephone companies likely outgunned the
cable industry last quarter in the race for new high-speed Internet subscribers
by their widest margin to date, according to analysts' estimates.

Industry experts say the sales figures for broadband
lines due to be released with second-quarter earnings reports over the next
couple of weeks are likely to be among the few bright spots in an otherwise
lackluster period for the dominant telephone companies.